We have to hear of a Lady Ormont out of Society! We have to suppose it means there's not to be a real one.

He can't marry if he has allowed her to go about bearing his name.

She has a fool of an aunt, I'm told; as often in the house as not.

Good proof of his fondness for the woman, if he swallows half a year of the aunt! Well, you won't, unless you've mere man's eyes, be able to help seeing him trying to hide what he suffers from that aunt.
He bears it, like the man he is; but woe to another betraying it! She has a tongue that goes like the reel of a rod, with a pike bolting out of the shallows to the snag he knows--to wind round it and defy you to pull.

Often my brother Rowsley and I have fished the day long, and in hard weather, and brought home a basket; and he boasted of it more than of anything he has ever done since.